The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-08-17
!. Tcrry,s Luoky widow.

There is q long and curious story be-
hind tho announcement made, with q
good deal of sensational flourish, that a
fortune of 81, 900, 900 has been left to
Mrs. Kate Louise Terry by her late hus-
band, Ivan Petro Terry, who died in
Paris, where the lucky widow is still
living. The $7.O00.0 900 will probably
be cut down q good deal, but if the for
tune reaches half that sum Mrs. Terry
is an extraordinarily fortunate woman
OF tho lady the Hartford Times says:
Her life up to the present time, if &C.
curately depicted in II novel, would
make interesting reading. Kato Louise
Norman Cher maiden namc) camo
hither from England in childhood with
hor father, who settled in Brooklyn,
and eventually became q judge there.
She is now about 80 years of age, hand.
some, of good figure, and a style that
has a good deal Of dash in it. 1t was
to her good looks and her style that she
owed hor courtroom marriage to Ivan
p. Terry. Before that she had been the
wife of the notorious bank burglar,
Charley Billiard, who is now said to be
serving q long term of Imprisonment in
Belgium. The marriage TO Bullard took
place in England, whore she was visit
ing, when she was about l6 years OLD
Billiard then went by the name OF
| Charles Wells. He was 4 smart fellow,
with Il fine address and plenty of spend
ing money, and the girl he married
knew nothing about his real character.
He took her to Paris, where he opened
a sort of American bar-room on 4
snowy scale, and installed his pretty
young wife as cashier. She naturally
attracted a good deal of notice, and the
venture prospcrcd for n while. Billiard
gave it up, however, and brought his
wife to New York. 1t was then sno
found out who and what he
Another wife soon turned up, and the
couple separated, never TO meet again.
The second wife took her two children
and went off on her own account. How
she lived till she met Terry does not
appear to be known. lIo was the SOL
of a millionaire sugar-plantcr III Cuba,
and had made some money himself.
They were married without any loss of
time, but tho subsequent proceedings
were not entirely harmonious. A num-
Der of little unpleasantncsses occurred,
and led up finally TO q polico-court son
sation. Mrs. Terry was of Il decidedly
jealous turn, and once on going through
her husbands pockets, after the manner
OF WlQeawake wives, SnC lOunu Il PNSn-
ing letter from a young woman explain
ing why q certain appointment was not
kept. 1t is needless to say that the let
ter did not improve Mrs. Tcrry'S state
of mind. After thinking n while she
set a trap for the young woman, and
caught her in it. Then she called on
her at her home TO give her a talking
to, and got turned out for her pains.
That warmed her up still more, and her
next step was to make a charge against
the young Of appropriating GER
tain money that she said she missed,
Then came tho policc-court sensation,
in which the two women played prom
inent parts, and which the reporters
had II fine time writing up, After 4
great deal of wrangling the charge was
dismissed, and the second Woman, "A
Miss Atwood, soon after rctaliatcd by
suing Mrs. Terry for SANDER. Shu
claimed $25, 900 damages, and n jury
awarded her $500. but as Mrs. Terry
had no property in her name TO levy ON
the judgment is still unpaid. Miss At
wood will try pretty hard to collect it
when Mrs. Terry returns to New York
rs a millionaire widow, If She docs 70
turn. Her husbands will has been re-
cciyed there for probate, and she will
probably follow it. The unborn child
ID expected next month.